Template:License disclaimer notice/doc

{{License disclaimer notice/doc}} provides a vehicle to request that an individual editor remove GFDL disclaimers from a specific image that they have uploaded. This applies only to:

• Editors who have uploaded images with a GFDL license tag that includes disclaimers (for example {{GFDL-self-with-disclaimers}}).
• Images that are genuinely free use, not public domain, properly copyrighted by the English Wikipedia uploader, licensed under the GFDL, and meet any other criteria to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons. (If there is any question about any of these concerns, resolve it before using this template.)
• Images that you (the editor employing this template) are in the process of moving, or about to move, to the Commons.

Best practice suggests that you wait several days after using this template before proceeding to copy the image to the Commons. This gives the uploading editor an opportunity to see, consider, and act on the request.

This template does not add any categories to the page it's placed on.

Usage

1. This template is always placed on the talk page of the editor who uploaded the image in question. Do not include a section headline, since the template generates one itself.
   
   
2. This template must always be substituted in order to avoid altering pre-existing discussions on a user's talk page as the template is modified in the future.
   
   
3. This template takes a single parameter: The name of the image that (a) is licensed with disclaimers and (b) you plan to copy to the commons. The parameter is entered without square brackets and without the namespace prefix (i.e. without "Image:").
   
   
4. Use the following syntax when placing this template on a user's talk page:

   {{subst:License disclaimer notice|IMAGE NAME}}

   or use the shorthand redirect:

   {{subst:ldn|IMAGE NAME}}

5. Do not sign with four tildes (~~~~). The template signs for you automatically.
   
   
6. In addition, consider adding the image to your watchlist, in order to provide a quick way for you to know when/if the uploading editor modifies the license tag.

See also

• Wikipedia:GFDL standardization
• Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
• Template:Copy to Wikimedia Commons
• Example English Wikipedia license tags with and without disclaimers:
  • Template:GFDL-self-with-disclaimers
  • Template:GFDL-self
• Example Commons license tags with and without disclaimers:
  • Commons:Template:GFDL-user-en-with-disclaimers
  • Commons:Template:GFDL-user-en-no-disclaimers